On this week’s The Drill Down podcast, an Amazon robot injures two dozen humans, Google‘s CEO testifies before Congress, China flexes its muscle against tech companies in the west, Bold statements from Elon Musk, space news… and much, much more.

Podcast

What We’re Playing With

Dwayne: HomePod; Study on Screentime

Tosin: 1Password

Headlines

• 24 Amazon workers hospitalized after robot accidentally tears open can of bear spray
• Microsoft president calls for government regulation of facial-recognition technology to ‘ensure that the year 2024 doesn’t look like a page from the novel 1984’
• Google now allows its Chrome browser to remove all ads from “˜abusive’ sites
• Verizon takes $4.6 billion write-down on Oath

Audible Book of the Week

• Miles Morales: Spider-Man by Jason Reynolds
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Music Break: Antarctica by Vangelis

Hot Topics

• Canada arrests Huawei’s global chief financial officer in Vancouver
  • Huawei’s CFO is granted bail by Canadian court
  • Chinese RETALIATION: Former Canadian diplomat held in China
  • Huawei arrest puts ‘bullseye’ on Apple
  • China bans most iPhone sales after granting Qualcomm an injunction against Apple
• GoPro moving some production out of China to avoid US tariffs
• Marriott Data Breach Is Traced to Chinese Hackers

• Google CEO Sundar Pichai Testifies in front of Congress
  • Google CEO Sundar Pichai refused to rule out launching a censored search engine in China
• Australia Looks to Rein in Power of Facebook and Google: Regulator says tech companies’ opaqueness could warrant establishment of a watchdog to ensure they aren’t abusing power

• Elon Musk is brutally honest about Tesla’s board and SEC: ‘I can get anything done that I want’
  • Elon Musk takes issue with “˜misleading edit’ of Tesla interview on 60 Minutes, here’s what was really said

Music Break: 2000 Light Years From Home  by The Rolling Stones

Final Word

• NASA’s Voyager 2 probe has entered interstellar space
• Water found on asteroid, confirming Bennu as excellent mission target

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• ERB: Elon Musk vs Mark Zuckerberg

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Geeks Of Doom’s The Drill Down is a roundtable-style audio podcast where we discuss the most important issues of the week, in tech and on the web and how they affect us all.

Hosts are Geeks of Doom contributor Andrew Sorcini (Mr. BabyMan), marketing research analyst Dwayne De Freitas, and Vudu product manager Tosin Onafowokan.